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The Good Kiss is a collection of poems dealing loosely with the subjects of divorce, sexuality, and American culture from the 1950s to today. The poems vary in tone from the fairly serious to the reflective and meditative, to the wryly comic. Perhaps it is fair to say that this range of tones exists within many of the individual poems, and is their defining characteristic. Poems like "What I Want," and "The Good Kiss" are good examples of these quirky, rather unexpected tonal shifts and blendings.

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Publié par	University of Akron Press
Date de parution	25 octobre 2010
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781935603375
Langue	English

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The Good Kiss

Akron Series in Poetry
Winner of the 2001 Akron Poetry Prize
A LSO BY G EORGE B ILGERE Big Bang The Going

A KRON S ERIES IN P OETRY Elton Glaser, Editor
Barry Seiler, The Waters of Forgetting Raeburn Miller, The Comma After Love: Selected Poems of Raeburn Miller William Greenway, How the Dead Bury the Dead Jon Davis, Scrimmage of Appetite Anita Feng, Internal Strategies Susan Yuzna, Her Slender Dress Raeburn Miller, The Collected Poems of Raeburn Miller Clare Rossini, Winter Morning with Crow Barry Seiler, Black Leaf William Greenway, Simmer Dim Jeanne E. Clark, Ohio Blue Tips Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Never Be the Horse Marlys West, Notes for a Late-Blooming Martyr Dennis Hinrichsen, Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights Susan Yuzna, Pale Bird, Spouting Fire John Minczeski, Circle Routes Barry Seiler, Frozen Falls Melody Lacina, Private Hunger George Bilgere, The Good Kiss William Greenway, Ascending Order
The Good Kiss

Poems by
George Bilgere

The University of Akron Press Akron, Ohio
Copyright 2002 by George Bilgere
Some of the poems in this volume have appeared in or are forthcoming in the following journals: Atlanta Review: Annulment (published as Anniversary ); Denver Quarterly: Ike ; Field: Stupid, Jennifer, Cordell ; The Journal: Old Man River ; Missouri Review: Pain, Eden, Nectarines, Anywhere ; Ploughshares : The Good Kiss (published as Almost the Same ); Sewanee Review: Like Riding a Bicycle, Laundry, Let Down ; Southern Review: Crusoe, Threepenny Opera ; Tar River Poetry: Corned Beef and Cabbage, The Garage, Satisfied.
All rights reserved. First Edition 2002. 11 10 09 5 4
All inquiries and permissions requests should be addressed to the publisher, The University of Akron Press, Akron, OH 44325-1703
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bilgere, George, 1951-
The good kiss : poems / by George Bilgere.- 1st ed.
p. cm. - (Akron series in poetry)
ISBN 1-884836-92-5 (alk. paper) - ISBN 1-884836-93-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ePDF 978-1-935603-26-8 ePub 978-1-935603-37 5
I. Title. II. Series.
PS3552.I425 G66 2002
811 .54-Dc21
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Manufactured in the United States of America.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z 39.48-1984.

Cover painting: Edvard Munch: The Kiss 1892, Oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm, National Gallery, Oslo. Artwork Munch Museum/Munch-Ellingsen Group/ARS 2007. Photo Munch Museum (Andersen/de Jong).
Contents
Like Riding a Bicycle
Corned Beef and Cabbage
Crusoe
Jennifer
Great Cathedrals
What I Want
Anywhere
Magellan
Tamed
Eden
Westward Ho
St. Paul s
Elegy for the LP
Let Down
Night Flight
Stupid
The Garage
Nectarines
Threepenny Opera
Denver
Pain
Wind Turbines
The Good Kiss
Blues for Cleveland
Laundry
Inherit the Wind
Ike
Mockingbird
August
Nevada
Mysterious Island
Old Man River
Divorce
Retrospective
Cordell
Annulment
For Cec
Like Riding a Bicycle
I would like to write a poem
About how my father taught me
To ride a bicycle one soft twilight,
A poem in which he was tired
And I was scared, unable to disbelieve
In gravity and believe in him,
As the fireflies were coming out
And only enough light remained
For one more run, his big hand at the small
Of my back, pulling away like the gantry
At a missile launch, and this time, this time
I wobbled into flight, caught a balance
I would never lose, and pulled away
From him as he eased, laughing, to a stop,
A poem in which I said that even today
As I make some perilous adult launch,
Like pulling away from my wife
Into the fragile new balance of our life
Apart, I can still feel that steadying hand,
Still hear that strong voice telling me
To embrace the sweet fall forward
Into the future s blue
Equilibrium. But,
Of course, he was drunk that night,
Still wearing his white shirt
And tie from the office, the air around us
Sick with scotch, and the challenge
Was keeping his own balance
As he coaxed his bulk into a trot
Beside me in the hot night, sweat
Soaking his armpits, the eternal flame
Of his cigarette flaring as he gasped
And I fell, again and again, entangled
In my gleaming Schwinn, until
He swore and stomped off
Into the house to continue
Working with my mother
On their own divorce, their balance
Long gone and the hard ground already
Rising up to smite them
While I stayed outside in the dark,
Still falling, until at last I wobbled
Into the frail, upright delight
Of feeling sorry for myself, riding
Alone down the neighborhood s
Black street like the lonely western hero
I still catch myself in the act
Of performing.
And yet, having said all this,
I must also say that this summer evening
Is very beautiful, and I am older
Than my father ever was
As I coast the Pacific shoreline
On my old bike, the gears clicking
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